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Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 63 | Friday april 26, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Plush creativity: indy plush
gives back to environment,
elementary schools. PAGE 5
Last chance: the lacrosse
team faces elimination
against San diego. PAGE 12
lIStEn uP!
2013 Graduate Commencement Speakers
tani cantil-Sakauye
California Chief Justice, the fi rst Filipina-American and
second woman to serve in the role
Gould School of Law
robert ross
President and CEO of The California Endowment
Keck School of Medicine
hans hufschmid
Co-founder of GlobeOp Financial Services
Marshall School of Business
Jerold Goldberg
Dean of the School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Ostrow School of Dentistry
Amir Whitaker
Founder of Project Knucklehead and USC alumnus
Rossier School of Education
Maj. Gen.
terrence Feehan
Vice Commander of Space and Missile Systems Center,
Los Angeles Air Force Base
USC ROTC
clinical Associate Professor
rafael Angulo
Recipient of the Jane Addams Faculty Award
School of Social Work
Source: uSc news design by christina ellis
By alana victor
daily trojan
Doctoral student researchers
in several fields are collaborating
to explore the possibilities of
engineering, computer science
and biology through the use of
autonomous underwater vehicles.
Students in the Viterbi School of
Engineering’s Robotic Embedded
Systems Laboratory and USC(sea)
Lab have been able to do this by
programming underwater gliders
that will roam the sea, testing and
gathering data that is essential to
biological research conducted by
other students.
Chairman of the Computer
Science Department Gaurav
Sukhatme, who is overseeing
the project, said the research is
actually composed of a series of
projects.
“We are interested in
understanding how to build
robots that are intelligent and
that can survey the ocean,”
Sukhatme said. “This has been
about a decade-long activity, so
what you are seeing are our latest
set of experiments in our long-term
endeavor.”
Sukhatme said the project is
not without challenges, especially
when it comes to adapting
computer science for the rigors of
real-world applications.
“We are a bunch of computer
scientists, and we are specializing
in computer intelligence,”
Sukhatme said. “But just to work
in the actual ocean, we have to
do a lot of things to integrate our
ideas with ocean-going hardware
and get it to work reliably in the
ocean.”
Arvind Pereira, a fifth-year
doctoral candidate studying
computer science and the student
leader of the lab conducting the
joint research effort, said the
research group is augmenting
pre-existing technology with new
technology to fit the project.
“We decided not to make our
own glider because we did not
want to spend time developing a
system that is already out there
and seems to be working quite
well,” Pereira said. “Instead,
we wanted to focus more on
engineering the new things in it,
which would allow us to use the
preexisting glider and make it
smarter. In computer science we
do that through improvements in
software and hardware.”
Dave Caron, a professor of
biological sciences, said these
vehicles are not only cost- and
time-efficient, but can also stay
out on missions for a month at
a time and reach places where
human divers could not go.
“The idea of the robotics is
that we will have a continuous
presence in the ocean and that is
basically what we have developed,”
Caron said. “We have developed
technology and approaches that
allow us to know what is going
on in the water on a constant
basis, so that when something is
beginning to happen, we can be
there as it unfolds, rather than
be there after the fact. That way
we try to understand what the
environmental conditions are
that give rise to the toxic algae
that we see in the water.”
Caron said the collaboration
and teamwork better these very
different fields is necessary to
achieve both groups’ ultimate
goals.
“It’s a huge environment, so if
we tried to keep track of things by
simply going out there, we would
not be able to cover the area or the
time,” Caron said. “We want to be
able to have a finger on the pulse
— know exactly what’s going on
and when things look like they
will be informative to us. Then
we can get out on the ship and do
our sampling and experimental
work.”
Caron said he works closely
with the bioscience side of the
project, which has been going on
for almost a decade. During this
time, he has seen results in not
only the project itself, but in the
students participating as well.
“I think the students benefit
tremendously because they get
essentially an interdisciplinary
training,” Caron said. “They not
only are versed in the robotics
and the computer science of
it, but they understand ... how
their approaches can benefit
other aspects of science and
engineering and, in this case, the
biology of coastal oceans.”
Bridget Seegers, a doctoral
student studying biology, said
the intertwining of science and
engineering has been mutually
beneficial for both sides.
Viterbi students program underwater gliders
The gliders allow scientists
access to ocean depths that
are unreachable by humans.
| see ocEAn, page 3 |
innovation
gSg
By jordyn Holman
daily trojan
After changing the focus of
graduate student events, Graduate
Student Government finished
the year with a budget surplus of
approximately $100,000, according
to organization officials.
GSG, which lobbies
administrators on behalf of
graduate students and brings
the graduate student community
together through programming
events, begins each year with a
budget of $1.5 million. The events
Graduate
gov boasts
surplus
The budget surplus will
go toward updating GSG’s
website and other needs.
| see buDGEt, page 2 |
ralf cheung | Daily Trojan
Memory · Marianne Hirsh discusses Thursday the concept of
postmemory to an intimate audience in Doheny Memorial Library.
CampuS
By reBecca dancer
daily trojan
Marianne Hirsch, named
the USC Shoah Foundation’s
2013 Yom Hashoah scholar-in-residence,
educated an audience
of 40 students and faculty
at Doheny Memorial Library
Thursday about her concept of
“postmemory,” or the younger
generation’s responsibility to
remember trauma such as the
Holocuast, suffered by their
elders.
Hirsch, the president of the
Modern Langauge Association
and a professor of English
and comparative literature at
Columbia University, presented
different artistic mediums, such
as poetry and drawings, as “small
acts of repair,” or ways in which
today’s generations can begin
to understand the experiences
of those who have died in mass
genocides throughout history.
The presentation was prefaced
by the story of a young girl, Sonja
Jaslowitz, who wrote poetry at
the age of 16 while a prisoner in a
Jewish ghetto.
“She did not survive to have
her history recorded, but we have
her testimony in the form of her
poems,” Hirsch said. “But what
are we to do with them? ”
Hirsch also spoke about the
lack of archived information and
public knowledge of the Romanian
Holocaust and specifically on
Transnistria, a large Romanian
region where dozens of ghettos
and concentration camps existed
during World War II. Nearly
300,000 Jews died in Transnistria
during the Holocaust.
Shoah scholar discusses
genocide, ‘postmemory’
Marianne Hirsch discussed
how generations after the
Holocaust are still affected.
| see MEMory, page 2 |

Student newSpaper of the univerSity of Southern California SinCe 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | vol. 178, no. 63 | Friday april 26, 2013
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
Plush creativity: indy plush
gives back to environment,
elementary schools. PAGE 5
Last chance: the lacrosse
team faces elimination
against San diego. PAGE 12
lIStEn uP!
2013 Graduate Commencement Speakers
tani cantil-Sakauye
California Chief Justice, the fi rst Filipina-American and
second woman to serve in the role
Gould School of Law
robert ross
President and CEO of The California Endowment
Keck School of Medicine
hans hufschmid
Co-founder of GlobeOp Financial Services
Marshall School of Business
Jerold Goldberg
Dean of the School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Ostrow School of Dentistry
Amir Whitaker
Founder of Project Knucklehead and USC alumnus
Rossier School of Education
Maj. Gen.
terrence Feehan
Vice Commander of Space and Missile Systems Center,
Los Angeles Air Force Base
USC ROTC
clinical Associate Professor
rafael Angulo
Recipient of the Jane Addams Faculty Award
School of Social Work
Source: uSc news design by christina ellis
By alana victor
daily trojan
Doctoral student researchers
in several fields are collaborating
to explore the possibilities of
engineering, computer science
and biology through the use of
autonomous underwater vehicles.
Students in the Viterbi School of
Engineering’s Robotic Embedded
Systems Laboratory and USC(sea)
Lab have been able to do this by
programming underwater gliders
that will roam the sea, testing and
gathering data that is essential to
biological research conducted by
other students.
Chairman of the Computer
Science Department Gaurav
Sukhatme, who is overseeing
the project, said the research is
actually composed of a series of
projects.
“We are interested in
understanding how to build
robots that are intelligent and
that can survey the ocean,”
Sukhatme said. “This has been
about a decade-long activity, so
what you are seeing are our latest
set of experiments in our long-term
endeavor.”
Sukhatme said the project is
not without challenges, especially
when it comes to adapting
computer science for the rigors of
real-world applications.
“We are a bunch of computer
scientists, and we are specializing
in computer intelligence,”
Sukhatme said. “But just to work
in the actual ocean, we have to
do a lot of things to integrate our
ideas with ocean-going hardware
and get it to work reliably in the
ocean.”
Arvind Pereira, a fifth-year
doctoral candidate studying
computer science and the student
leader of the lab conducting the
joint research effort, said the
research group is augmenting
pre-existing technology with new
technology to fit the project.
“We decided not to make our
own glider because we did not
want to spend time developing a
system that is already out there
and seems to be working quite
well,” Pereira said. “Instead,
we wanted to focus more on
engineering the new things in it,
which would allow us to use the
preexisting glider and make it
smarter. In computer science we
do that through improvements in
software and hardware.”
Dave Caron, a professor of
biological sciences, said these
vehicles are not only cost- and
time-efficient, but can also stay
out on missions for a month at
a time and reach places where
human divers could not go.
“The idea of the robotics is
that we will have a continuous
presence in the ocean and that is
basically what we have developed,”
Caron said. “We have developed
technology and approaches that
allow us to know what is going
on in the water on a constant
basis, so that when something is
beginning to happen, we can be
there as it unfolds, rather than
be there after the fact. That way
we try to understand what the
environmental conditions are
that give rise to the toxic algae
that we see in the water.”
Caron said the collaboration
and teamwork better these very
different fields is necessary to
achieve both groups’ ultimate
goals.
“It’s a huge environment, so if
we tried to keep track of things by
simply going out there, we would
not be able to cover the area or the
time,” Caron said. “We want to be
able to have a finger on the pulse
— know exactly what’s going on
and when things look like they
will be informative to us. Then
we can get out on the ship and do
our sampling and experimental
work.”
Caron said he works closely
with the bioscience side of the
project, which has been going on
for almost a decade. During this
time, he has seen results in not
only the project itself, but in the
students participating as well.
“I think the students benefit
tremendously because they get
essentially an interdisciplinary
training,” Caron said. “They not
only are versed in the robotics
and the computer science of
it, but they understand ... how
their approaches can benefit
other aspects of science and
engineering and, in this case, the
biology of coastal oceans.”
Bridget Seegers, a doctoral
student studying biology, said
the intertwining of science and
engineering has been mutually
beneficial for both sides.
Viterbi students program underwater gliders
The gliders allow scientists
access to ocean depths that
are unreachable by humans.
| see ocEAn, page 3 |
innovation
gSg
By jordyn Holman
daily trojan
After changing the focus of
graduate student events, Graduate
Student Government finished
the year with a budget surplus of
approximately $100,000, according
to organization officials.
GSG, which lobbies
administrators on behalf of
graduate students and brings
the graduate student community
together through programming
events, begins each year with a
budget of $1.5 million. The events
Graduate
gov boasts
surplus
The budget surplus will
go toward updating GSG’s
website and other needs.
| see buDGEt, page 2 |
ralf cheung | Daily Trojan
Memory · Marianne Hirsh discusses Thursday the concept of
postmemory to an intimate audience in Doheny Memorial Library.
CampuS
By reBecca dancer
daily trojan
Marianne Hirsch, named
the USC Shoah Foundation’s
2013 Yom Hashoah scholar-in-residence,
educated an audience
of 40 students and faculty
at Doheny Memorial Library
Thursday about her concept of
“postmemory,” or the younger
generation’s responsibility to
remember trauma such as the
Holocuast, suffered by their
elders.
Hirsch, the president of the
Modern Langauge Association
and a professor of English
and comparative literature at
Columbia University, presented
different artistic mediums, such
as poetry and drawings, as “small
acts of repair,” or ways in which
today’s generations can begin
to understand the experiences
of those who have died in mass
genocides throughout history.
The presentation was prefaced
by the story of a young girl, Sonja
Jaslowitz, who wrote poetry at
the age of 16 while a prisoner in a
Jewish ghetto.
“She did not survive to have
her history recorded, but we have
her testimony in the form of her
poems,” Hirsch said. “But what
are we to do with them? ”
Hirsch also spoke about the
lack of archived information and
public knowledge of the Romanian
Holocaust and specifically on
Transnistria, a large Romanian
region where dozens of ghettos
and concentration camps existed
during World War II. Nearly
300,000 Jews died in Transnistria
during the Holocaust.
Shoah scholar discusses
genocide, ‘postmemory’
Marianne Hirsch discussed
how generations after the
Holocaust are still affected.
| see MEMory, page 2 |